COLLECTIVE INTIMACY

COLLECTIVE INTIMACY: Revive the collective housing as a utopian oasis

Wu, Xinyue (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)

Rosbottom, D.J. (mentor)
Mulder, K.B. (mentor)
Pimlott, Mark (mentor)

Delft University of Technology

Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Interiors Buildings Cities

2024-01-18

In case you feel confused, this is an architecture project based on research which in total took one year. The process was never linear, but the narrative has to be.

For the first six months I studied the essential values of collective housing in post war period, how they prompted to solve housing crisis and how they embraced the collectivism in Europe and China. It turned out that most of them did not maintain the original function as a collective housing for working class. However, the concept of collective living continued to influence urban life. In response, the design approach for renovating the 1952 Workers' New Village in Shenyang, China aimed to demonstrate the potential for reviving this old form for communal living. Minimal intervention and adjustments to thresholds resulted in the creation of a series of spaces ranging from private to public, catering to the demands of the free market and post-urbanization.

Socialist housing
Collective living
Heritage Preservation
Shenyang Workers' Village
minimum intervention
layers of intimacy

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Student theses

master thesis

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